Schofield Barracks

[thebloodsonthewall]

if your not married your going to need to get off post housing authorized, this can only happen when the barracks are above 80% if i remember correctly, then youll need your chain of command to sign off on it so it will highly depend on your unit. house availability will be highly dependant on what units are deployed.

i wasn't into civilian guns when i was there but ccw id say almost definitely no. the only places i remember being able to shoot were in Waikiki, they had these indoor things where you pay like 50 bucks to shoot a couple rounds from an ar, they are more oriented towards Japanese tourists.

there is camping ect, alot of its on military property so your in luck.

airborne is going to depend on if your unit will send you. unless you get it in your contract when you reup if you do i wouldn't bet on it happening, a more likely option would be air assault when i was there they had the school closed for awhile but it may be open now. with any school they're going to look at it like why do we need to send a guy in a non airborne unit from Hawaii to Georgia to get qualified in something he wont be doing. im not try to discourage you but i dont see it being likely unless you can do it before you get there.

I'm married. Do you recommend living on or off post? It looks like the BAH is pretty high and the cola was pretty high also. I started looking at the gun laws and it looks like they are pretty similar to CA.

[dwa]

I'm married. Do you recommend living on or off post? It looks like the BAH is pretty high and the cola was pretty high also. I started looking at the gun laws and it looks like they are pretty similar to CA.

on post housing sucks id live off post if possible. lots of guys live on north shore, kunia, and mililani. give the locals a wide birth there always more of them and chances are the cops that show up are their cousins. they are probably going to stick you in on post house of this other place i cant remember the name of right now by the Dole plantation. if you dont mind room mates you can live on the beach for not too much.

[jmlivingston]

It looks like the BAH is pretty high and the cola was pretty high also.

There's a reason for that, it's darn expensive to live there!

[arfan66]

Want to do the beach thing but not deal with tourists/locals? Check out the cabins at Bellows AFS. Great place to stay if you're entertaining family visiting from the mainland. $80/night is pretty good considering how close the beach is (less than 100 yds. from the back row cabins). Of course, your 'peeps' can just crash at your place if they're trying to save some coin. If you get a chance to hang out on Kauai, the cabins at NAS Barking Sands ain't bad either.....